![]() As a reader I didn't care that he just brushed by her, because I felt like her recital was just there to get him up the mountain. I mostly felt that the girl was incidental to the story in Cream. Mod Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "I mean, he's centering a story around this girl from his past, but he can't remember her name. Since I'm doing music for this reread, I searched for four hands piano pieces by Mozart and this is what I got. (Thanks to Yeats always for permanently lodging disintegrating spirals in my mind.) ![]() So the center of the story doesn't quite hold, at least for me. I'll talk save that for when we get to that story.)Īll that said, am I being obtuse for just imagining a spiral when he talks about a circle with many centers and no circumference? Because I think a spiral fits fine and I didn't think it was that hard. (And rereading this also makes the story "First Person Singular" even more of a gut punch. But as the opener to the whole collection? Holy wow. I still wouldn't say that Murakami did anything particularly amazing inside this specific story. ![]() ![]() But now rereading it after my first read of the collection, it lights me on fire. I just reread "Cream" and I have to say that this story annoyed the daylights out of me the first time I read it. ![]()
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